Surveying and Mapping Technicians
Architecture and EngineeringAI Impact Assessment
This job may see some changes due to AI, but human skills remain important.
Surveying and Mapping Technicians with an AI automation risk score of 42%. Analysis includes 19 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work is primarily desk-based and routine
Safer Career Paths
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31% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
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38% AI Risk
Higher ambiguity and stakeholder alignment.
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
36% AI Risk
Higher ambiguity and stakeholder alignment.
Key Tasks
Design or develop information databases that include geographic or topographic data.
Identify and compile database information to create requested maps.
Position and hold the vertical rods
Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy
Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy
Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries
Determine scales
Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data